Thursday, December 19, 2013

Capers, Part 1

You may remember when I saw how to make a simple superhero cape on Pinterest last year. All it takes is an old t-shirt and a pair of fabric scissors. You can fancy it up, but that's optional. SCA never took me up on a spirit day for cape wearers, so I forgot about it for a while. This year I floated the idea by one of my classrooms full of dreamers and musicians. Yes. They were in agreement that we must create a reason to make and wear these capes.

Before I go any further, this has nothing to do with my curriculum or state testing. Nothing.

And it's not for a grade.

A finished no-sew cape. Black T & tape by LG.

We finally came up with the idea those who want to participate would make capes at home and bring in a photograph of us doing something awesome IN OUR CAPES!

Things That Are Awesome:

taking out the trash

reading to someone else

reading to our pets

riding our bicycles

washing the dishes

playing our instruments

marching in an impromptu parade

singing into a hairbrush

brushing our teeth

brushing our pets' teeth

raking the leaves

baking cookies

vacuuming the house

hugging our grandparents

hanging around on the monkey bars

DANCING!

etc.

At the start of school, there were two Nerdfighters amongst us. One of them was me. Now that the John Green fan club is growing, we try to remind each other to be awesome. For each AWESOME photograph that a student brings in, he/she will be rewarded with a priceless green DFTBA pencil.

Never fear. No one is allowed to jump tall buildings....without a helmet!